Did you like that headline? Sounded just like a real newspaper article, huh? Never had one day of J-school!

Anyway, Zack Greinke, some may recall, was a pretty good prospect as a position player back in high school. He swung a nice bat and, indeed, many think he could have gone pretty far a hitter.

That was a long time ago, of course, but he got some wood on a ball today, hitting the go-ahead home run in the fifth inning of the Brewers-Nats game. Oh, and since they pay him to pitch he did a little of that too, striking out ten dudes in seven innings of work.

This was the Brewers’ 13th win in the past 16 games. Or their 27th in their last 50. Or their 104th in their last 212th. Remember, I didn’t go to J-school, so I never learned how to properly construct those littler sports reportery-sounding statistical blurbs.

The point stands, however: the Brewers are hot. And even if that four-team race so many of us predicted in the NL Central this year doesn’t materialize, we may very well have the makings of a pretty nice two or three team race soon.

Note: I am aware that the photo is blurry. Just as I’m pretending to be a real journalist for the purposes of this post, I think the AP photographer was pretending to be an artist. I kinda like it when they do that.

Right about now how much do you think the Nationals Ownership is regretting that 7 year $126M contract they gave Jason Werth. Their in last place, their attendance in down versus last season and Werth’s numbers aren’t that great.

There’s no chance that signing was for this year. As soon as Strasburg went down, 2010 became a lost cause. The Werth signing could only have been for the years going forward, both as a show of, “we got a quality free agent once, we can do it again,” and as a lineup depth move behind Zimmerman and (eventually) Harper. Doesn’t make the cost of doing so less silly, but I’m not convinced he’ll fail to be what they wanted him to be.